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Performance Cars Ltd v Abraham [1962] 1 QB 33. The defendant negligently damaged a motor vehicle that had previously been damaged by the negligence of another motorist; the defendant was held not liable for the cost of a re-spray because, having damaged an already damaged car, his negligence was not the cause of the loss
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[1970] AC 467
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[1982] AC 794
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Although this will not always be the case: see Rouse v Squires [1973] 1 QB 889, where a negligent motorist who caused a motorway pile-up was held liable for 25% of the further damage caused when a second negligent motorist collided with the pile-up
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[1949] 1 All ER 588
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[1949] 1 All ER 588, 596
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See Robinson v Post Office [1974] 2 All ER 737
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(1977 ) 82 DLR (3d) 130 (Ont. CA)
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[1982] 1 All ER 851, 865, per Stephenson LJ
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[1989] 1 Med LR 36
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[1957] 1 WLR 1121
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Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [1999] 3 All ER (HL); Kirkham v Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police [1990] 3 All ER 246, CA. For a discussion of when a duty to prevent suicide attempts may arise see: Jones MA. Saving the patient from himself. Prof Neglig 1990; 6: 107
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[1975] 1 WLR 1411
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Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Morts Dock and Engineering Co., The Wagon Mound [1961] AC 388
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[1963] AC 837
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[1995] 6 Med LR 139, 170–171. See also Clinical Risk 1996; 2(3)
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Owens v Liverpool Corporation [1939] 1 KB 394, 401
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Love v Port of London [1959] 2 Lloyd's Rep 541
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Bishop v Arts and Letters Club of Toronto (1978) 83 DLR (3d) 107
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Page v Smith [1995] 2 All ER 736; Malcolm v Broadhurst [1970] 3 All ER 508 — where the injury merely aggravated a pre-existing nervous condition
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[1974] 2 All ER 737